: SEO disasters moving domain for a high traffic website? We're looking at moving our website from http://www.wikijob.co.uk to http://www.wikijob.com/uk as we spread our wings internationally. Our .co.uk

@Courtney195

Just know that all the responses you get here (other than one from someone at Google who knows their entire indexing code base) will be guesswork and hearsay. I moved a site from domain.com to domain.com and made the latter the canonical domain and it definitely hurt our ranking a bit. The "www" address had a PR=5 and 2 years (and much growth) later the non-www version is still PR=4. It also took GWT months to rationalize all the information across the two domains.

Having had this experience, my approach in your situation would be conservative. Unless there is an extremely compelling reason to have everything under .com, I wouldn't disturb the .co.uk domain.

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@Pope3001725

Your content looks like it's very regionalised. i.e content is relevant to a region.

Personally I would go for a domain per region and make sure each domain contains the content relevant to that region.

So keep the .co.uk and add a .com. Then move US content to the .com and start cross promoting your domains.

If you do go the /uk sub folder path then make sure you use Google Web Master Tools to have each folder target the region they relate to. Note you can only do this with Google, all other search engines will target the region your website is hosted at.

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@Dunderdale272

I think it wont be a problem.

for more information www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106

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